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🔆Land Degradation

✅ About 29% or about 96.4 million hectares of land in India are considered degraded.
✅ Desertification and Land Degradation Atlas of India, ISRO: With close to 30% of its geographical area already affected, land degradation is a pressing issue.
✅ Global Land Outlook Report: Over 70% of the Earth's land area has been altered from its natural state due to human activities.

Desertification :

✅ According to the Desertification and Land Degradation Atlas of India (2021), there is a cumulative increase of 1.05 million ha area under desertification.
✅ Rajasthan, with the Thar Desert, is the most affected state, with approximately 61.2% of its area facing desertification; According to the Government’s data recently presented to the UNCCD, India lost 31%, or 5.65 million hectares (MHA), of grassland area in a decade.
✅ The extent of degraded land in India is over 105 million hectares or about 32% of India's area.
✅ More than 80% of the country’s degraded land lies in just nine states.

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🔆Land Degradation

✅ About 29% or about 96.4 million hectares of land in India are considered degraded.
✅ Desertification and Land Degradation Atlas of India, ISRO: With close to 30% of its geographical area already affected, land degradation is a pressing issue.
✅ Global Land Outlook Report: Over 70% of the Earth's land area has been altered from its natural state due to human activities.

Desertification :

✅ According to the Desertification and Land Degradation Atlas of India (2021), there is a cumulative increase of 1.05 million ha area under desertification.
✅ Rajasthan, with the Thar Desert, is the most affected state, with approximately 61.2% of its area facing desertification; According to the Government’s data recently presented to the UNCCD, India lost 31%, or 5.65 million hectares (MHA), of grassland area in a decade.
✅ The extent of degraded land in India is over 105 million hectares or about 32% of India's area.
✅ More than 80% of the country’s degraded land lies in just nine states.

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